String 1 Deadly Games

A sociopath is running a deadly social experiment on a university campus. Markus Haas is the first to refuse to play the game. What unravels is a sequence of impossible decisions and a race against time to stop the sociopath before others pay the ultimate price. Welcome to the string. Let's go over the ground rules. Rule #1: Participation is mandatory. Rule #2: If any one person refuses to play, the threats to all players will come to pass. Since this is my game, allow me to introduce myself. I am the conductor. Just as musicians in a symphony must follow the conductor's direction, the selected students and staff of Trenton University must submit to my commands . . . or risk massive chaos and deadly consequences. Even that pesky university cop, Markus Haas, who thinks he'll find a way out of the impossible dilemma in which I've trapped him. Oh, the surprises I have for him. Ready to play? "Every now and then an author comes along who makes me say, 'Where have you been!' Even though you and I didn't know we were waiting, we were. Breakey's debut thriller is intricate, electric, and twisted--in the best sense of the word. Extremely difficult to put down. Highly recommended."-- James L. Rubart, five-time Christy Award winner Caleb Breakey is the founder of Speak It To Book, a company dedicated to helping exceptional people write authentic books and build impactful platforms that captivate, educate, and motivate lives in unprecedented ways. Caleb is an ECPA Award finalist and a winner of the prestigious Genesis Contest for fiction writers. He loves exploring truth through story in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, where he lives with his wife, Brittney, two mischievous mini huskies, and a smiley Shiba Inu. Welcome to the string, a game of impossible decisions and deadly consequences. Let's go over the ground rules. Rule #1: Participation is mandatory. Rule #2: If anyone refuses to play, all threats will come to pass. Game on. Get ready for a deadly social experiment as a sociopath known as The Conductor delivers disturbing threats and twisted moral dilemmas to unsuspecting students and staff. As a powerful instinct for self-preservation sweeps through the campus, one man has a grave decision to make. Will university cop Markus Haas play the game to protect those he loves? Or will he break the string and incite massive chaos--and even death? In the great suspense tradition of Ted Dekker and Steven James, Caleb Breakey's explosive debut novel will have you turning pages into the night.